DuC vs AmE (A) (Candy Cup #1, Game 4 - 07 May 09)

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Lanes:
Sent = DuC || Scourge = AmE
Top: cm (shau) / potm (Edge) || Necro (Gmadman)
Mid: Tinker (Legend) || Scorp (Dirk-Digla) / Lina (toxickitten)
Bot: kunka (AstRa) / Rhasta (NeoN) || riki (Dre) / wl (War_Mage)

Comment:
1st off, as expected from an AmE game, was epic and definitely a ton of fun. 2nd, thanks goes out to AstRa for the sub. ^_^

Nice phantom pick of riki Dre, we totally forgot about him after the 1st half of drafting. >_<

Just looked at the game-length, 70 minz... wow! And it felt that long to boot. lol

AstRa played a mean kunka, was sweet lane'ing with him in the beginning. Seeing as riki played it safe til lvl 6, I was forced to keep netting wl. >_< Kunka went for an anti-riki build, opting to rush gaygon and max it out - which was awesome.

Kudos to shau for the insane amount of sentry wards he bought (made me feel like a slacker, looking at the stats after the game ). Having not played Rhasta for a long time, I made some stupid mistakes - like placing my ulti in a "not so optimal" place when tt/raxing. :/ But I had my moments too. Will admit that the Soul Booster might not have been the best build to go for, but I was trying to get an ulti-improver.

Hard to comment on the rest of the lanes early-game, as I was too focused on my lane. >_< The fact that they didn't feed is good enough for me. lol

Seems AmE didn't control ruins too well, as Tinker managed to get in a few sneak gangs. Their warding was a lot less than ours too, with only wl buying 'em for AmE.

Initially I thought lina was a bad choice as her stuns can be dodged, but in team-battles they did hurt. As expected of Gmadman, he played an awesome Necro. SK was a pain as always. A number of times I just started netting some1 when wl's ulti would drop - even with mixing it up, waiting a lil longer before netting. X_x Made me lol

Surprisingly, riki did not farm up as much as I expected. Not to say he wasn't imba. We just didn't give him much opportunity to pick us off individually.

Having Tinker meant we could keep the pressure up in all lanes, with his perma machines/tp. Edge got in some sweet arrows, wp. Word of advice for Lina (kitteh), when free farming, be sure to keep your movements random - potm was easily able to target you allowing for an easy pick off. ^_^ Shau thought he was playing carry in the early part of the game, scoring a number of kills. jk

Team battles were a mix of ups and downs, depending on who we had at the time (and how fast I fell). Epic fail of note which has to be mentioned, is me going to go ward their bushes when the rest of the teamies are going to initiate under the cloak of potm's ulti - soz guyz, that ward _needed_ to be planted. >_< jk lol Seriously though, won't make that mistake again anytime soon. :/

Looking forward to the next encounter. ^_^

ggwp!

Spoiler:

Winner: DuC

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Ye was awsum game lots of fun

Sigh farming was a bitch early game with Neons Hax netting as i appear

Mid - late game everytime I got a kill i ended up dying which ment i lost the cash so was hard to farm but after my triple kill i manged to get sum items lol.

I agree we didnt ruin control much or ward enough but i think the thing needed the most was counter warding (which we not used to) to kill the *^&#^#Q(*&^( sentry wards

but was awsum game wp to all...

Dre21 wrote:Sigh farming was a bitch early game with Neons Hax netting as i appear...

lol... >_< In the lane, since kunka was doing all the farming it left me free to position myself and focus on my netting.

Dre21 wrote:Mid - late game everytime I got a kill i ended up dying which ment i lost the cash so was hard to farm...

Yeah, that was rough.

Dre21 wrote:...but after my triple kill i manged to get sum items lol.

lol... Not sure if that was my fault, but I recall the DuC ts channel got heated just after that battle. >_<